HLTA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Salutogenesis, Unwell, Homeostasis
20 Oct 2015
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Definition: a set of high-order cognitive skills used to critically appraise arguments and evidence, as a particular theoretical stance or perspective, example: a critical social science perspective. Features of critical thinking: problematization: we think deeply and ask a lot of questions, reflexivity: self-directed, disciplined, monitored. Illness as the subjective experience of feeling unwell. Medicine robs us of our potential to cope, resilience. Relying on drugs, not coping with being human. Must focus on what facilitates health, not just cause of disease. Health: than the absence of disease/infirmity the conditions of everyday living (example: housing, income, employment, education) is a state of complete. , mechanical, individualistic and reductionist understanding of what health is. Recognizes limits of (traditional) biomedical model processes within the broader social context body. Key terms sm: body is viewed as a machine that can be broken down into parts. Doctrine of specific aetiology normal range of measurable biological variables.
